Who Drives?

[Sheherezade]

DH drives because he LUUUUURVES to drive. He's a total car freak. Race car driving certified, etc. I'm the utilitarian, unexciting family bus driver. I probably log more miles but am also happy to relinquish the wheel if he wants to drive. Sometimes, I drive because I have the keys to the car in front of us and he doesn't have his set. It's that random.

[mommax3]

He drives...control issues. I don't mind because if he is driving, I can play on my phone, but I firmly believe that I drive my car (which is a big SUV) better than he does because I am more accustomed to it. He probably does not agree. We split driving on long trips.

[WolfpackWife]

I firmly believe that I drive my car (which is a big SUV) better than he does because I am more accustomed to it. He probably does not agree.

I am the same way!! I have an SUV and was always skeptical of DH's driving only car bc his is small but after he started driving the ambulance while he was a volunteer emt, I figured I didn't have much of an argument anymore...

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

He drives. I like to read and he likes the control.

[SoonerTexan]

We both hate to drive. Probably because I drive 60-80 miles a day and he drives 40. The only upside to driving is not being the backseat caretaker on a long car trip when N is in a mood.

Sidenote--DH cant do left and right either. Unless it is in a medical setting? I have to give him east/west directions. Which means I have to orient myself wherever we are and no our cars are too cheap/old to have compasses. Luckily we know the whole damn city well because of all the driving we do.

[niener]

We both like to drive and are both good drivers but he almost always drives. He gets bored easily in the passenger seat and either falls asleep or gets "handsy" (seriously dude, I'm driving, not making out with you). I'm better at giving directions and he's better at following verbal directions (I need the visual of seeing it on a map) so I navigate.

[ladymoreta]

I'm terrible at left/right, too. I always point in the direction I mean, just in case, because I've gotten it wrong too often to trust myself. I'd never heard it related to being ambidextrous. I'm not, but my dad is. I wonder if there's some genetic reason I can blame my terrible navigation skills on!

[BonBon]

I'm terrible at left/right, too. I always point in the direction I mean, just in case, because I've gotten it wrong too often to trust myself. I'd never heard it related to being ambidextrous. I'm not, but my dad is. I wonder if there's some genetic reason I can blame my terrible navigation skills on!

Me too! For some reason, I never get truly lost, but I can't actually give directions because I always mix up left/right and east/west. (but I never mix up north/south, or top/bottom??)

[HouseofWool]

My entire family laughs at me because my 4 year old does a better job of distinguishing between left and right than I do. I remember reading once somewhere that it is a brain mapping thing. That somehow it just doesn't click for a certain percentage of the population.

I'm pretty good at reading a map and rather prefer to navigate to a receptive driver.

[MsSassyBaskets]

I've always wondered what the brain differences are... They say women are more likely to navigate by landmark than direction, but as soon as people start telling me to "turn left at the Burger King" I get cranky. I do much better with cardinal directions and a compass, and vague, general landmarks like "it's west of downtown". DH used to get so frustrated with me because my navigation consisted of pointing to a spot on the horizon and saying "it's over there." But I'm usually right. I can get us within a few blocks of a destination with almost no help, then we need the gps for the details.

[ladymoreta]

Yes! DH calls it my "mall sense". I'm good at telling where I am in relation to other places, but I can't put a direction label on them. I'm also really good at finding my car in parking lots.

[MrsK]

Me too! For some reason, I never get truly lost, but I can't actually give directions because I always mix up left/right and east/west. (but I never mix up north/south, or top/bottom??)

Growing up in SoFl, everyone used to say to just remember that ocean was on the east. That didn't help me unless I could actually see the ocean. This is what helped me: Never Eat Sour Worms. Find the sun and note the time of day (rises in the east, sets in the west). That will orient you to east/west. Then go clockwise Never Eat Sour Worms/North East South West.

[GrayMatterWife]

I'm pretty good at reading a map and rather prefer to navigate to a receptive driver.

That's the funny thing about my super-ambidextrous mom! She is AMAZING at reading maps. She is great at geography and intuitively knows N/S/E/W. But if you tell her to hang a left at the corner, she's screwed.

[HouseofWool]

I tend to look at the map and then point the direction that we need to go because of my stupid inability to keep left and right straight.

[oceanchild]

I'm pretty good at navigating, except with cardinal directions. Yes, I know the mountains are to the west. I still can't keep my cardinal directions straight.

DH does most of the driving around here. I hate driving. I am currently the designated driver, though, when we go out to dinner. And I usually drive when we're taking my car, because it's a stick, and he hates driving it.